Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis